What are psychics good for?

It seems every time there is a tragedy that occurs. I start getting mail. The hate mail starts. They sound a little like this. Why didn’t you stop it? Why don’t you predict that or this? What good are you? What are you good for?, if you can’t warn people. I have never heard a psychic, predict a tragedy like 911 will or would happen so what good are you?

Thank you for the those lovely letters but the truth, comes in many forms. Most times the people who write me and really its only because I am a psychic medium, and maybe the only one they have heard of or had contact with. So Bazinga, I get the brunt of the questions, and anger.

Of course tragedy in all its forms and ugliness is hard to deal with.

The truth about this is this. A lot of psychic mediums will not report what they see and hear. Of course we have the psychic’s and medium’s that work directly with the police, and give great tips to the proper authorities. On the other hand there have been psychic’s who have been arrested, because they knew too much detail and were arrested as suspects.

Here are some facts or so called facts.

Chris Robinson, the psychic dreamer who warned intelligence agencies about planes hitting the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City prior to 9/11.

According to former senior National Security Agency official Tom Drake, British psychic spy Chris Robinson warned U.S. and British intelligence officials of a suicide attack against the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City prior to 9/11.

“These are my notes from August 5, 2000,” Robinson wrote to us, “the ones that kicked me into gear — and piss[ed] off the Special Branch here — and that led me to the USA and [working with University of Arizona Professor] Gary Schwartz [in August 2001, a month prior to 9/11].”

“The notes for the year 2001 were all sent to the [American] secret service, who asked for them in the U.S. — but I did keep a few copies — the one here was the night — going to bed — of 8 September 2001. It is part two, because the dreams were so terrible, I got up and then went back to sleep — and this was written at about four in the morning on Sunday the 9th.”

Dream notes scans provided by Christopher Robinson (U.K.)

There have been psychic’s that have come forward with information to help and try to stop tragedies from happening. There are a lot of cases where they were not taken serious, certainly this thought is starting to change. But it is very prevalent to this day.

Also I do have to mention here the u.s. Army and the use of psychics. Called the Stargate Project. The Stargate Project[ was the code name for a U.S. Army unit established in 1978 at Fort Meade, Maryland, by the Defense Intelligence Agency and SRI International (a California contractor) to investigate the potential for psychic phenomena in military and domestic applications. This primarily involved remote viewing, the purported ability to psychically “see” events, sites, or information from a great distance.[2] The project was overseen until 1987 by Lt. Frederick Holmes “Skip” Atwater, an aide and “psychic headhunter” to Maj. Gen. Albert Stubblebine, and later president of the Monroe Institute. The unit was small-scale, comprising about 15 to 20 individuals, and was run out of “an old, leaky wooden barracks”.

Information in the United States on psychic research in some foreign countries was sketchy and poorly detailed, based mostly on rumor or innuendo from second-hand or tertiary reporting, attributed to both reliable and unreliable disinformation sources from the Soviet Union.

The CIA and the Defense Intelligence Agency decided they should investigate and know as much about it as possible. Various programs were approved yearly and re-funded accordingly. Reviews were made semi-annually at the Senate and House select committee level. Work results were reviewed, and remote viewing was attempted with the results being kept secret from the “viewer”. It was thought that if the viewer was shown they were incorrect it would damage the viewer’s confidence and skill. This was standard operating procedure throughout the years of military and domestic remote viewing programs. Feedback to the remote viewer of any kind was rare; it was kept classified and secret.

Remote viewing attempts to sense unknown information about places or events. Normally it is performed to detect current events, but during military and domestic intelligence applications viewers claimed to sense things in the future, experiencing precognition.

Mumford, Michael D. et al. (1995). Prepared for the CIA by The American Institutes for Research.

Ronson, Jon. (2004). The Men Who Stare at Goats. Picador. ISBN 0-330-37547-4. Written to accompany the TV series Crazy Rulers of the World. The US military budget cuts after the Vietnam war and how it all began.

Here is an excellent article about Psychic Detectives

I WOULD LOVE THE POLICE TO BE MORE OPEN ABOUT USING US

DIANE LAZARUS, 49, from Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, has been a professional psychic for 20 years. She has traveled all over the world helping the police in investigating crimes.

I FIRST saw spirits at a young age so for me it’s nothing out of the ordinary. When I’m working on a case I don’t refer to the dead as spirits, I call them “energy”.

The police give me a photo of the victim or they arrange a face-to-face meeting with a member of the victim’s family or occasionally the family member contacts me directly.

I always record these readings and take notes so the police can refer to them, which makes it easier if the case goes to court.

My first case was 15 years ago when I was living in Swansea.

Out of the blue, two police officers called at my home.

A man was missing and they wanted to see if I could pick up any details about what had happened to him.

Using my psychic skills I could see that the man had committed suicide and was slumped in his car. The police later found the man in his vehicle in the location I described.

Since then I’ve worked with police forces around the world. Whenever I work on a case I make sure that my methods fit in with the police force’s procedures and I never ask for payment.

A high profile case that I was involved with in the UK was the murder of Mark Green.

I did a reading for his aunt who thought he was missing but he came through and told me he was dead.

Mark then provided information about how he had been killed. His aunt passed the tape of her reading to the police.

At first the detective constable who was leading the investigation thought it was a missing person’s case. However I spent five hours walking around Birmingham with another officer and with Mark’s spirit guiding me.

I led the officer to the Highgate estate in Birmingham where Mark’s body was later found and provided more details about his murder and the materials involved.

Thanks to my input the case was upgraded to murder.

I also predicted that a TV show would smoke out the killer.

Mark’s parents later appealed on TV and afterwards a man called James McMahon came forward and confessed to helping the killer – his brother Robert McMahon – bury the body in his garden.

Both men were convicted. The killer was given life and his brother two years.

I would love the police in the UK to be more open about using trusted psychics and I agree with the new guidelines.

Yes there are questionable psychics but the good ones can provide valuable clues, all with the help of the spirit world of course.

MY SPIRIT GUIDES SHOW ME WHAT HAS HAPPENED

TRACY HIGGS, 45, from Hertford, Hertfordshire, has been a professional medium for 14 years. She first worked with police nine years ago.

IN 2006 I appeared on the TV show Psychic Private Eyes which investigated unsolved crimes and was aired on CBS Reality.

I had been a professional medium for three years but the show brought my gifts to the attention of grieving families and the UK police.

Soon people who had lost family members in a violent way started asking me for readings. They wanted to know what had happened to their loved ones.

When I do one of these readings the victim’s spirit gives me details about their death, the murder weapon, where the body is and so on. I relay this information to the loved one. I always tape these readings and the relative usually passes the details to the police.

Often these readings include details that haven’t been released to the public.

It’s at this point that I receive a phone call from an officer who’s investigating the case and I provide more information if I can.

Sometimes the police contact me directly. I tune into my spirit guides and I’m shown clairvoyantly what happened. It’s like watching a film. It’s upsetting but I’ve learned to deal with it. Often the police give me a photo to work with or a name, which helps me link in with the victim and the murderer.

My first police case was nine years ago. A woman whose daughter had been murdered came for a reading and I gave her specific evidence about the killer. I told her the killer was her daughter’s boyfriend and that he had stolen things from her flat, which were hidden at his workplace and not his home.

The mother passed this information to the police, who found the items at the killer’s workplace. Another case involved a woman called Bonnie Barratt. A relative came to me for a reading and Bonnie’s spirit came through immediately.

Bonnie told me she was a prostitute and was insistent her murderer was a client and that he had killed another woman.

I also picked up that the killer was from Preston, Lancashire.

This information was passed to police. Several months later, Derek Brown from Preston was convicted of Bonnie’s murder and sentenced to life.

When I hear of a conviction I feel glad that I’ve been able to help give the families closure. I’m pleased these new police guidelines have been issued and I will always try to help solve crimes. It’s one of the reasons why I have this gift.

By MONICA CAFFERKY

You can clearly see that psychic’s and mediums are helping, and bringing peace to many families that are suffering in the death, or murder or a family member or close friends. More and more the police detectives are turning to the psychic’s and mediums for leads.

There is much data on this, so before you write to me wanting to know, Why we don’t do anything, take a look around, because behind the scene, or what you call reality, there are very gifted trained and tested psychic mediums helping.

Dr. Julie Beischel’s newly published research on assisted after-death communication sets a new standard of proof, but don’t expect science to change its stance on psychic mediums.

Before becoming the preeminent researcher of medium communication, or as she likes to call it, “assisted after-death communication”, Dr. Julie Beischel was a newly-minted PhD in pharmacology and toxicology who was trying to come to grips with the loss of her mother. Grief had led Dr. Beischel to the door of Dr. Gary Schwartz whose controversial research into medium communication had drawn national attention. After several years of collaboration during which Dr. Beischel designed and implemented experiments which have become widely recognized as setting the gold standard in such research, Julie left the University of Arizona to found the Windbridge Institute. Her research into medium communication and its effect on the bereaved continues to shed light on a phenomena that flies in the face of what science is telling us about life and death, and has the potential to redefine who we are.

Join Alex Tsakiris for an interview with Dr. Julie Beischel:

Alex Tsakiris: You’re researching psychic mediums? Is this some kind of joke? Research and science doesn’t go with the term medium communication does it?

Dr. Beischel: Science is just a tool. It’s just one way we learn how the universe works so it can be applied to anything. And there were a lot of people with strong opinions about what the capacity of mediums is. Can they report accurate and specific information? So I took the scientific method and I applied it to mediumship. Again, it’s just a tool you can apply to anything and so yes, it does go together because it’s something we don’t fully understand yet. So yes, [mediumship] is the perfect thing for science to tackle because we don’t understand it.

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Dr. Beischel: What we’ve found in all three of those ways that we look at scoring, we’ve achieved statistically significant positive results in a study done in 2007, and a replication study that we just published earlier in 2015. So the original study was 16 readings and this most recent study is 58. So that’s a total of 74 readings in which under these more than double-blind conditions mediums could report accurate and specific information about the deceased when no sensory information could be plausible for where they got their information…

Dr. Beischel: George Clinton; George Hamilton; George Carlin; George Strait; George Bush–either one; George Noory; George Foreman; George Washington…all you have is the name George. Now you have to describe personality, physical description, hobbies, cause of death, messages for the sitter…And you and your 19 friends have to do that to a statistically significant degree 58 times.

Alex Tsakiris: And that gets to the real question implied in this whole thing that we dance around and that’s why isn’t this research more widely accepted? So you’re doing research experiment #2. You’re trying to get people to jump on the bandwagon as you’ve just described and say, here, I’ve laid it all out, go replicate it. But there is this underlying resistance to it because it is so threatening to science-as-we-know-it. So what is the answer? Your answer seems to be more good research and that science will prevail but do you really think that that’s the way this plays out? Is anyone in the “scientific” community going to roll over and say, well, there it is.

Dr. Beischel: You know what? I don’t care. This is a replication study. We’ve shown that it occurs twice now in two different population of mediums, and we’re the Windbridge Institute for Applied Research. At the end of the day we care about how this affects people’s daily lives. And we’ve talked about grief and the possible effect of mediumship readings on the bereaved. And this research demonstrates that it’s possible that they’re not just doing a cold reading; that it’s not just rater bias; that they’re not engaged in fraud. So something’s happening and people are engaged in it and it’s making them feel better. So let’s tackle that.

Alex Tsakiris: One of the questions that you seem to be asking with this latest round of research is what is the effect of all this on the mediums? And you seem to be looking at the psychophysiological effects and finding out that mediums have some different health issues than non-mediums do. Can you tell us briefly what that research is all about and what you’ve discovered?

Dr. Beischel: I recently presented some results from this study at the Society for Scientific Exploration meeting. And what we were seeing, just anecdotally, mediums on our team were reporting a lot of health issues. So we thought maybe there’s something about performing a mediumship reading that has some negative effect on the body. Maybe you get pumped full of cortisol. Maybe you have a lot of adrenaline. So we thought we’ll just do a shotgun approach and we’ll look at basic physiological measures — heart rate, blood pressure, that sort of thing.

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Dr. Beischel: Sixteen of the mediums took this health survey and 13 of them reported autoimmune disorders. So if you just picked 16 women off the street of the same age that would be statistically almost impossible that 13 of them would have autoimmune disorders. The same thing with migraines — the female population of mediums report a lot more than should be in this population of migraines. And so I started to look into that and my current hypothesis, and I’m not the first person to say this, they also have a lot of childhood trauma. And there’s a very clear association in mainstream research between childhood abuse and trauma and adult disease including autoimmune disorders and migraines among a million other things. So I surveyed them about child abuse and they also scored off the charts in traumatic experiences in childhood. So my current theory is it’s not mediumship that causes disease but it’s trauma that causes disease and mediumship.

this article is from skeptico by Alex Tsakiris

thank you for reading, I truly feel that in the future, we will see more and more testing, and we will see psychic’s and mediums starting play a bigger part in detective work, and remote viewing, and connecting to the other side.